I'm with AKG competition is good.
Too many times Nvidia had no real competition in gaming and its good that they do.
Its good for all of us. Not only for prices, but good competition drives great development (at least if the company has any pride and I believe both do in this case)

Hell the 480 & 470 ARE awesome cards (I hope the 460 is great too!). I just like it when the competition isn't ground into the dust so the NEXT gen is even more awesome. To me its kinda like watching two hungry grizzly bears fighting over who gets to eat ya: you hope neither win and ALL their attention is on the other bear and not you. :)~

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well when ati came out with the 2900...power figures, temps..werent exactly good either lol..and performance? hmmmmmmmm

So what? I think everyone pretty much agrees that the 2000 series sucked. ATI certainly didn't get any praise from me when they released it. But that was three years ago, and has nothing to do with this.

Great review - thanks a ton Sky. I'd love to see some dual/triple SLI numbers for the 470 and if you have an asbestos testbed for the 480 as well. Just be sure to alert your local power company so they can be ready to compensate. I may not ever be able to run such a setup as I live in B.C. and would run the risk of having the heat signature picked up by the R.C.M.P. chopper's F.L.I.R. leading to a kicking in of my door looking for a grow-op. Nvidia really missed the boat with marketing though - for anyone who has ever baked a card to reflow the solder joints it is a great feature that this card will reflow every time you play Crysis. (MAXIMUM HEAT)

It wouldn't surprise me if we saw 5.25" bay GPU power supplies popping up again. This would be a good time for em IMO.

BTW, Great thread as well - thanks to everyone who contributed. (blatant fanboi-ism not withstanding - yes, you Markone ATIone Trollone w/e ).

P.S. Somebody PM me when GTX 485 is released.

P.P.S. Skymtl - you really should have used this pic on the first page: